09 October 2019

Self-portrait as Return To Sender : Delivered/Undeliverable/Signature Required


Today, we received two noteworthy photographic images of reflexive regard. 

The first via an academia.edu alert for an article by Jacquelynn Baas : 'Marcel Duchamp and the Artist of Tomorrow' (Interalia Mag. issue 3, 2014)



 Marcel Duchamp (American, b. France, 1887-1968). Details of 
 To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with 
 One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour, 1918. 
 Oil, silver leaf, lead wire, and magnifying lens on glass, 
 mounted in a standing metal frame, 20 1/8 x 16 x 1 3/8 inches. 
 Museum of Modern Art (New York) Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
 Photo: Jacquelynn Baas.

The second image via Marcus Bunyan's Art Blart :
  

 Aenne Biermann (1898-1933)
 Self-Portrait with Silver Ball
 1931
 Gelatin silver print
 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg

Theatre of the Actors of Regard  
 detail
 A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
 someone looks at something...
  
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